ALBANY -- An estimated several hundred people around the state were sent a campaign mailer attacking Guilderland Town Board Member Warren Redlich, the Libertarian Party candidate for governor, as a "public danger" who advocates sex with underage girls.

Redlich denounced the flier as "slander" and "gutter politics," saying a post on his blog cited as evidence was taken out of context. He hinted at legal action against People for a Safer New York, a front committee that paid for the mailer.

The flier urged recipients to "call the police" on Redlich, a "pervert."

The flier had the same mail code as another sent by Davis' campaign, in some cases received by people -- several of whom contacted the Times Union -- on the same day.

"I've seen both mailers; I think that they're both accurate," Stone said. "People for a Safer New York is called a First Amendment group. I'm in touch with them. ... I urged them to do this, this is a First Amendment issue."

He called the content "100 percent legal. ... As somebody who has two granddaughters, I really find Redlich's advocacy and defense of sex with underage girls disgusting and repugnant, and voters need to know about it prior to voting on Tuesday."

Redlich said his candidacy should not be related to a 2008 blog post he wrote about racy photos of pop star Miley Cyrus that appeared in Vanity Fair.

"The greatest love interest in the history of romance is at least arguably Juliet from Romeo and Juliet. Juliet was 13 years old. For some reason females become fertile in their early teens and peak before the age of 18," Redlich wrote. "You would think those who believe in the theory of evolution would see this as the design of the species."

Redlich asked the story not be covered, and said that since the mailer contained his home address, it endangered his children.

"It's an absolute disgrace," he said. "Nothing I've ever written would qualify me as a sexual predator more than it would qualify William Shakespeare as a sexual predator. ... I think discussing what I wrote is attacking the victim."

More than Redlich's reputation is at stake: Although he is not expected to win election on Tuesday, Redlich could receive more than 50,000 votes, which would earn permanent ballot status for the Libertarian Party line for four years.

The same is true of both of the ballot lines whose leading candidates have received Stone's counsel: Davis' party, as well as a second Taxpayers Party line that Paladino created with Stone's help.